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Toni BakerOxidative stress can help tumors thrive, but one way novel cancer treatments work is by pushing levels to the point where it instead helps them die, scientists report.
Silence is golden when it comes to how our brains work
Sullivan selected for two national scientific honors.
Arthur TakahashiFour Medical College of Georgia students won $25,000 in cash and services to finance their health tech startup during the 2018 Southeast Startup Challenge Summit.
When trauma spills the contents of our cell powerhouses, it can evoke a potentially deadly immune response much like a severe bacterial infection.
AUGUSTA, Ga. (June 6, 2018) – Immune cells that are first responders to a traumatic brain injury appear to also contribute to the secondary damage that can occur even days later, scientists say. The NETs – or neutrophil extracellular traps – these...
Denise ParrishRoosevelt Warm Springs Foundation awards $62,000 to Roosevelt Warm Springs Rehabilitation and Specialty Hospitals to refurbish historic cottage and purchase high-tech medical equipment.
Jennifer Hilliard ScottDr. Mary Arthur, director of the anesthesiology residency program at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, is the editor of a new book designed to help new anesthesiology residents better navigate the transition from their intern...
Chris CurryA team of three Georgia Cancer Center researchers is taking the next step towards finding a future treatment option for colorectal cancer, the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths.
Danielle HarrisDr. Alex Schwarzmann has been named dean of Augusta University’s School of Computer and Cyber Sciences.
Dr. Kathryn Bollinger, ophthalmologist, glaucoma specialist and retinal cell biologist, is working on protections from glaucoma.
Dr. Daniel Albo, a surgical oncologist, physician-scientist and educator who is vice chair of the Department of Surgery at the Medical College of Georgia, has been named department chair.
Cyberbullying and suicide-related behavior are significant public health concerns with approximately 157,000 youth receive emergency room care for self-inflicted injuries each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There...
Protective protein activated by vitamin K found, inactive, abundant in African-Americans on dialysis
High levels of a protein activated by vitamin K and associated with cardiovascular disease when it isn’t, has been found in the blood of African-Americans on dialysis, investigators report.
Augusta University Health has signed an agreement with Grady Emergency Medical Services to improve inter-facility transport services for patients who need the highest levels of care at Georgia’s only public academic health center.
As a trade war between the U.S. and China looms, Dr. Jonathan Leightner, an expert in Chinese economy, says most people are missing the bigger issue.
A new and early target for treating pulmonary hypertension appears to be an enzyme that’s normally key to energy production but destructive in the face of this high blood pressure inside your lungs.
Augusta University will offer a new certificate to prepare students for careers in cybercrime investigation and law enforcement, data security and technology.
Augusta University Health is good medicine for Georgia in more ways than one.
New research published in Cancer Immunology Research by Drs. Esteban Celis and Hussein Sultan of the Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University could serve as the stepping-stone in constructing vaccines with a greater likelihood of finding and...